Bethesda jank is what brought us the Giant Space Program in Skyrim so I'm definitely fine with some jank. They've also said it's the least buggy Bethesda game they've made. It feels like you're just picking bad points to shit on the game.

Doesn't need to be publicly traded to have those issues.

Even he knows reddit is a sinking ship.

Well beehaw.org is hosted in NYC.

But it's not more affordable education? It's just funneling federal dollars into the education industry, which is such blatant corruption I don't get why anyone was ever for it. If you want to make education more affordable then start by.. reducing the cost of education?

I'm pretty sure it actually does stand for that in lemmy.ml's case at least.

Man if we could target 10% of the hate priests get for that towards teachers doing the same thing we might actually be able to protect most children from abuse.

So maybe more weight should be put on comment count? Much harder to fake those.

That's such a hilariously bad metric for detecting a bot network too. It wouldn't even work to detect a real one, so all that policy ever did was annoy real users.

So I guess a solution coild be having different switches for getting/sending data to an instance. So in this case beehaw could block receiving updates from sh.itjust.works but not block sending updates to sh.itjust.works. That way we could all still see the content from there while on sh.itjust.works just not interact with it. This could be displayed in the UI by having the comment box and all interaction buttons that would send an update disabled.

I hear the big downside with Usenet is availability of old or obscure content. Not sure how true this is though as I've never used Usenet myself.

Off topic but I never knew I would ever enjoy being called a shithead.

Imagine wanting a monopoly.

I was actually talking to someone that works in advertising and for big companies this is unlikely. Pepsi for example pays a lot for the guarntee that their product ads won't appear near posts they don't want them to. Since Lemmy advertising would only be through regular posts where they have no control over this, they likely wouldn't risk the potential detriment to brand perception.

Now this can change if the potential reach of Lemmy is big enough but that size will be different for each company.

Yeah I'll probably end up doing this eventually, just hope there's a way to migrate my account when I do.

The great thing about the fediverse is you can just move off mstdn.social and still keep interacting with everyone else.

God I love this stuff.

This alone wouldn't help because I can just set up an instance that requires email verification (or any other kind) and automate it still since I can make infinite emails with my own domain.

Here's the earliest comment I know that used it https://sh.itjust.works/comment/334068

This is huge, would love to see any other info on this.

Imagine having that happen to you and somehow having the willpower to do it again. The dark side of playing games for a living.